powersome
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]powersome (comparative more powersome, superlative most powersome)
- (dialect) Characterised or marked by power; powerful.
- 1886, Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, The Wolfe of Badenoch: A Historical Romance of the Fourteenth Century:
- "Uch ay," said MacErchar, "they be's powersome brutes— powersome brutes, in troth, and plaguy cunning..
- 2000, Tabor Evans, Longarm 257: Longarm and the Nevada Bellydancer:
- So he moseyed over by the tracks to light up and loiter in the darker shadows of the water tower as a million years went by and then at last he spied the headlamp of a powersome Baldwin 4-6-2 puffing, thirsty, up from the southwest.
- 2014, John Brunner, Children of the Thunder:
- “Gun, yes! But he is rich and powersome, and was our mayor. […] ”